The Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The Spirit of counsel and might,
The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD. (Isaiah 11:2)
Besides being a most welcome facet
of The Holy Spirit, along with the other six Spirits listed above, THE
SPIRIT OF COUNSEL is something (or Someone) we all have within
us (who are born again). Some of
us have not learned to clear the passages to release the flow, or to tap
into this powerful anointing, or to recognize or access this Presence
and this voice. The Seven Spirits of God are able and available
to impart to us THE MIND OF CHRIST. There
are some things that can block or be in the place of The Right Things.
This understanding is all about getting
THE RIGHT THINGS IN THE RIGHT PLACE, AND THE THINGS THAT ARE THERE INSTEAD,
OUT.
‘THE SPIRIT OF COUNSEL’ is the name
of our Counseling Program and Ministry at HIS PRESENT GLORY CHURCH. We call it that in all honor and due respect
to this special manifestation and anointing of The Holy Spirit of God
that we have experienced in a multitude of changed lives. It can only be God. Those who are changed know. (John 9:25b “…one thing I do know, that whereas
I was blind before, now I see.” AMP
We had all been talking and complaining
and praying but staying the same. Some
battled with addiction, some negativity, self-pity, pride, fear, jealousy,
rejection, self-consciousness, perversion, lust, etc., etc., etc.,
It was difficult to put The Truth into words and admit it because
of the common strongholds of Pride, Shame and Fear.
We all are involved in the need for
this deep work. There is no one
who does not need this kind of Truth and Light.
This is Transparency. We
need one another to deal with what we need to in order to ‘put off the
old’ and ‘put on the new’ and be ‘fitly framed and joined together’. We need each other to help us ‘put away the
things of a child’… of the old, natural, carnal realm. What a good work it is in us as we each become
willing to learn to become safe to handle the hurting and scarred hearts
of others. Scripture does not say
that we need to trust men, or that we are trustworthy, but rather to trust in The Lord with all your heart,
and yet confess your faults to one another.
(If you are forming a Spirit of Counsel Group, contact a current
facilitator for guidelines.) We
are prayerful in selecting each groups members,
and yet everyone needs help. There
can be several groups depending on the condition and the maturity of the
members and available faciltators.
When we started it was easy to miss
the verbal and obvious messages that made room for procrastination, excuse
making, justifying, rationalizing, alibis and having lots of good reasons
why we were not able to take the ground and make the changes we were always
talking about wanting to make. Here
is a good question: Do you want
to deal with it or just complain about it?
Do you want to ask your group for some help identifying what your
top issues are? Do you want some honest feedback and counsel
on what your first steps might be in discovering and dealing with what
is hurting and blocking you? Are
you willing to know TheTruth about your self? Jesus told us not to know Him after the flesh
anymore. He told us that He is
The Truth, and The Light and The Way and The Resurrection and The Life. Will we embrace Him as The Whole Truth about
us? Will YOU embrace Him as The
Whole Truth about YOU? Do you want
to KNOW THE TRUTH THAT WILL MAKE YOU FREE?
Will it kill the Pride and Shame and Fear from keeping your spots
and wrinkles covered and isolated by them instead of covered by The Blood
and brought to The Light to become one with The Light?
Our secrets lose their power when WE
bring them to The Light. They become
part of our testimony. They become
what we OVERCOME. THE TRUTH AND
THE LIGHT BRING A CROSS TO THE POWER OF THE PIT IN YOUR LIFE. ALL THAT DIES’ ALLTHE CROSS AFFECTS, IS THAT
WHICH IS NOT YOU (BY GOD’S DESIGN).
1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; NKJV
The child of God and sons of God are
not killed by the cross. The old
Adamic, carnal nature and it’s relative
(outlaw and in-law) ungodly spirits are separated from us by the cross
of Christ.
AS WE DEAL WITH OTHERS IN MERCY AND
TRUTH AND FORGIVENESS AND PRAYER AND RECONCILIATION AND UNCONDITIONAL
LOVE, WE CREATE
THE TRUTH AND THE LIGHT IS THE GREAT
EQUALIZER. SOONER OR LATER OUR
STUFF WILL COME TO LIGHT, IT IS PROMISED IN THE WORD OF GOD. ALL THINGS THAT ARE HIDDEN WILL BE BROUGHT TO
LIGHT. THE HIDDEN THINGS BLOCK
OUR GROWTH AND THE FLOW OF THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT IN US AND THROUGH US.
IT IS SO MUCH BETTER WHEN YOU BRING
YOUR OWN TRUTHS FORWARD YOUR SELF; HOW MUCH MORE HONORABLE. THIS IS WHERE PEOPLE WITH COURAGE GET REAL.
THIS IS A GREAT
CONVICTION CUTS WITH
A SURGEONS PRECIOUS SKILL AND TENDERNESS FOR GOODNESS SAKE, TO REMOVE
DIS-EASE. CONDEMNATION
STABS AND LIES FOR THE SAKE DISCOURAGEMNENT. CONVICTION IS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN
CHRIST JESUS.
THESE ARE STRETEGIC TIMES ON THE FACE
OF THE EARTH AND THERE IS A BRIEF PERIOD FOR PREPARATION. THIS IS THE PREPARATION FOR THE THIRD DAY; FOR
THE THIRD ‘ONE THOUSAND YEARS’. HE
IS COMING FOR A BRIDE OF CORPORATE SOULS WHO ARE PREPARED FOR THE MARRIAGE
FEAST AND WHO ARE WASHED AND WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE. WE NOW HAVE BEEN GIVEN EVERYTHING THAT PERTAINS
TO LIFE AND GODLINESS.
THIS MESSAGE IS A GOOD NEWS MESSAGE
OF
WE HAVE THE
If you can’t do it alone, get help.
Pray about it and The Lord will be faithful to show you who, how, what,
where and when. Begin with first
things first. Begin with your own
soul. Name the areas you know you need to change.
Name the areas other people around you would say you need to change.
David talked with his soul: ‘Bless
The Lord, oh my soul,”, ‘Why are you downcast, oh my soul?’
Now, you who are spirit, interview
your own soul. Ask your self the right questions and you will begin to
gather some of the right answers. You
will need some in-form-ation about whom and
what it is that has been causing the block and stronghold against your
desired change. ‘Your battle is not with flesh and blood, but
with powers and principalities in high places of wickedness’.
As you begin to exercise your discernment
and discerning of spirits, and start taking charge of your life, as the
child and son of God that you are, you can begin to put a ‘mug shot’ and
‘description’ up of these criminal, mafia type family of lying spirits
(or fami-liar spirits) that have been operating in you, and as
you and through you that actually are not you.
You can start a ‘file’ on them.
Do some investigation work about what has been going on in
your soul and body without your permission and agreement. What kind of transient parasite spirits have
you got deceiving you on an inside job?
When you know what it is that you are
dealing with, (and you can find out by what their thoughts, goals, acts,
end results are, you can also begin to determine how they got into your
life. (Is this something that travels bloodlines?
Does it run in your family? Was
it modeled for you? Did it enter
as you were being victimized? Did
it show up in your life to mask you or do you a favor when you were very
vulnerable?) It helps to know how something got in because
you would want to find out how to deal with that opening and close that
door and seal it once you move these things out, so they don’t have access
to come back into your life and bring ‘seven greater’.
You want to be sure that even before anything is ever ‘cast out’,
that you know how to keep it out and what the right thing is in the right
place and that you are already practicing it, so that it doesn’t’ find
the place ‘clean and garnished’ and vacant, so it has legal rights to
come back in.
You will be moving these giants out
of your land. You will learn from
Joshua and Caleb. The other 8
were full of fear. Don’t be like
them. The fruit is tremendous and worth it all! The grapes are like pomegranates!
Pray for and ask God for the Gift of
The Spirit that is the Discerning of Spirits (1 Cor.
You learn to be a good steward over
your own soul and body. There is
no ungodly spirit or sickness or disease that is a part of God’s design
for your life. Renounce it, name
it, and separate your self from it with your words… It is not ‘your’ cancer
or ‘your’ depression. Don’t claim
it and don’t be deceived into accepting it as your life and lot.
You go into your own heart and soul
like the FBI, and do the work of a good steward I speak to you, spirit-man,
and son of God. I speak to The
Christ in you now, and I know that you are The Lover of your soul and
the Savior of your body. You want
to observe the ‘modes operendi’, of these ungodly familiar spirits that
nest in your and use you to host them as they operate out of you, using
your soul and body as their vehicle.
Do not be ignorant of them, the Word of God says.
You want to be sure you know you’re you’re
dealing with them. You have seen the cops do a ‘sting’ on criminal
activity. They observe; set them
up, catch them, bust them, cuff them, bind them and lock them up. Keep them from operating. Whatever you bind on earth is bound in the supernatural
realm. Do the work, say the words.
The worlds were formed with words.
With words people marry and make oaths and contracts that are binding.
Use your words wisely, but use them!
Do not be ignorant of the wiles of
the devil. First begin to become
conscious of what is going on in your thought life. Learn the path of thinking, feeling, willing,
doing. Make no place for the devil. Make no provision for the flesh. First observe and learn and then you will go
in and make your permanent changes and bring about in your soul an eternal
reward.
Know your enemy, but not as your primary
focus. Your primary focus is always
the presence of God, and especially as Christ in you, as your identity.
But there will be some intense dealing with the pit until you have
overcome entirely. You will need to know and remove your enemy
with diligence and wisdom and power. Identify
the enemy. Break them down, separate
them, they work in families or gangs, or tag team partners that form stronghold
whenever possible. What is the
thing you hate and do not want to do?
When I didn’t know The Truth and I
only knew the facts, I pooh-poohed this concept of considering these things
‘spirits’. I was told these were
my emotions and my mental condition and I needed to accept it. I was told, for instance, that I had a ‘chemical
imbalance’ and I had a medical or mental or emotional ‘illnesses, and
I would have to learn to live with these things, like depression and anxiety.
I ‘lived’ with them, or more honestly, I died with them, for 20
years. They followed my consistency in this torment
in The Ream Study for manic depressives.
I was a classic case.
But when I looked into scripture and
found out that there is ‘a spirit’ of heaviness, and ‘a spirit’
of fear, and I besides that, that I have authority over them, that
was good news! I have authority
over them now, in The Name of Jesus Christ the Son of God. That means I do not have to accept them and
live with them anymore! The Truth
that I now knew was making me free. When
I did not know it, it did not change me.
Now I was learning how to choose my
thoughts; how to think with THE MIND OF CHIRST and how to LET THAT MIND
BE IN ME. I dealt with depression
as
The Spirit of Heaviness and it had to get up off me and leave. I believed it, The
word of God said it and The devil was now subject to obey me. The anxiety that was supposedly a ‘personality
disorder’, which of course it is, is one of the spirits of Fear. I had to deal with panic attacks the same way.
Panic is terror. These were terroristic
attacks on my soul. I didn’t know
what was happening the .
My soul needed saving. I
was bound up with fear. I needed
to know The Truth that could make me free.
The word of God says that God did not
give me a spirit of Fear, but of love and power and a sound mind! I have authority over it in The Mighty Name
of Jesus Christ. I needed to use
that authority. I needed to speak
to these spirits. I needed to submit
my self to God and I needed to resist them (the devil) and then they had
to ‘flee from me’. I did it and
they had to go. I still do it when necessary, although my condition
is nothing like I was then, but they still have to go, and they do.
So I did not know I could choose my
thoughts. I did not know I didn’t
have to accept my diagnosis (and there were many, because I had put my
hope in doctors and they make diagnosis.
Those diagnoses were like a curse to me.
They were spoken over me to name the things I was told I had to
accept. I DID NOT KNOW BETTER. I DID NOT KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT ME THEN, so I
accepted these things as a part of my defective personality. They well can be a relative to the old adamic, carnal, human nature, but now that I know that I could
and did ‘reckon’ that dead, crucified with Christ, it is no longer that
old thing that is the core of my being and identity, but in it’s place
I have invited and accepted Jesus, Yashua, and
Christ to be my life.
Now I know its not just depression
or heaviness, and anxiety or fear that I deal with in those same ways. I have learned how to deal with all emotions
in the same way. I have learned
that rather than that old carnal crazy defective mind I had, I now have
access to THE MIND OF CHRIST. Instead
of the miserable emotions I was stuck with, I was designed to have THE
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT filling my emotions.
Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work
which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace,
patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence),
faithfulness, Gentleness
(meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against
such things there is no law [that can bring a charge].
AMP
My spirit man is the presence of The
Spirit of The Son of God in me. This
is Christ in me, The Hope of Glory. This
is the presence and substance of God, who is ‘as He is in this world.’
It is Him, in me, as me, and with me
and through me. I am this new creature
in Christ. This is my Identity. Christ
is my life. The old man is dead. In his place I accepted Jesus into my heart.
Christ is being formed in me. He is Lord over every area in my life, even
though I am not finished yet; I am complete in Him. ‘Who is joined to The Lord is one spirit’.
I am one with God in Christ. My spirit is a deposit of God in the core of
my being. I live the exchanged
life. I gave Him my life and He
gave me His. We are one. I am a child and son of God in the core of my
being. This is my identity. It will never change. He will never leave me or forsake me. I have a soul and live in a body and I am no
more my soul or my body than I am my house or my car, but they are alive
and designed for me as my expression and my vehicle… even more; as I am
a spiritman, and my spirit man is The Christ in me, who is of
that same spirit of The Son of God, This Christ in me, the Hope of Glory
is lover of my soul, and savior of my body.
What is the trait or characteristic
or does and says, and
you know your own true identity in Christ, then you can begin to separate
your thoughts from the temptation thoughts of those ungodly spirits that
are not you.
Are you really ready for change?
Can you imagine what your life will be like without the same old
problems? What is the right thing
in the right place? What will take the place of what is being changed?
Do you know? What is it that hold
you? What is the favor it does
you? What is the spirit behind it? What do you have to do to maintain it? How long will you remain stuck and why?
Is it pride, shame or fear? Then
those ungodly spirits have seduced and deceived your soul into putting
them on as a mask and hiding under them instead of humilty,
honesty and the blood of Jesus. Accountibility
Requirements
are a whole-hearted desire and willingness to do whatever it takes to
get ‘unstuck’, and to begin to move into the fulfillment of our potential,
both in THE KINGDOM OF GOD, which is at hand (Mark 1:15, Luke 21:31),
AND IN THIS WORLD. (1 JN 4:17)
The absolute core goal and purpose
is for each one to absolutely know and understand with foundation his
or her true identity in Christ and to absolutely know the voice of God
and the mind of Christ and to have no question that they are not just
related to, but rather IN UNION AND INTIMATE COMMUNION WITH GOD, and furthermore,
to know with Paul, The Apostle, who also wrestled with his identity at
first, (Romans 7:15- Romans 8) who we are and who we are not, regardless
of our weaknesses. (Our identity is the source from which we do
what we do. We need to know who
we are. Jesus asked ‘Who do you
say I am?’ Rather we sin or are
righteous, it is out of who we believe we are in the core of our being. Identity is an absolute necessity in every foundation.
Without the surety of your identity in union with Christ you have
nothing to build on.
There are a multitude of mini-teachings
in THE SPIRIT OF COUNSEL pages. Practical
Transformation is the focus. It
is the result of the renewing of the mind with the
washing of the water of The Word, (which you will soon find is
the only truth about you). For
too long we, as Christians, have
yet been unable to clearly separate the difference between our own thoughts
and that which is temptation. Many
believe the temptation is their own desire, rather than a temptation thought
of some ungodly spirit, rather it be lust or jealousy or self-pity, and
they accept the temptation thoughts as their own.
Jesus was on all points tempted.
It is not sin to be tempted.
Once we realize we are dealing with
temptation, at that very moment, we need to recognize it as not our thought,
for we have the mind of Christ. We
can, on the spot, reject it and replace it with what we know is The Word
of God, and therefore, the mind of Christ, our only Right Mind. We must learn and know exactly where the lines
are. We can manage our thoughts
in faith. We will experience a
death to all that we had accepted as our own ‘bad’ thoughts and desires. We know because we know we are children of God
and our spirits are born again sons of God (and this is our identity)
that we cannot and do not sin; we have THE MIND OF CHRIST. LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU. Find the line, for the sake of your own soul,
and your own peace, between temptation and sin. Begin to learn the steps
and where the lines are and establish your identity in perfect love and
practice righteousness These are elementary steps
and threads in the fabric of the revelation of a huge multi-faceted mystery
God is revealing to you.
This process is about getting ‘free’,
and not only getting free, but learning to access and live out of the
ongoing Spirit of Counsel, who is able to instruct and comfort and direct
with Wisdom and Understanding and co-knowledge with God, the steps and
the thoughts of our moment to moment daily lives!
‘Who the Son makes free is free in
deed’. (John 8:36) Are you free
in deed? Are you free from the
power of the pit? Are you walking
in your Promised Land? Are you
free from passivity and fear? Are
you free from self-consciousness, negativity and depression?
Are you free from besetting sin, from self-pity and addiction? The whole-hearted desire and willingness to
do whatever it takes to move into your Practical Transformation process
define the requirements for those who are candidates for this no-nonsense,
intense and powerful ministry and program.
There are no ‘Lookie-Lou’s’ allowed. Everyone must become willing and open to Truth
and Light ABOUT THEMSELVES in
order for The Way that is promised to open up to them. This is The Way to Real Love and Real Life.
This is The Way for you to enter into your deliverance, healing
and restoration. This is The Way
of Truth and Light. This is deliverance
from denial and self-deception that is an agreement with blindness that
keeps one stuck.
Those who enter and pursue this intense
and narrow way also will find God’s magnificent and original perfect design
for their lives.
Transparency is a learned thing. It
is a practiced lifestyle. It is authenticity.
If you don’t know the real you, look into the Word of God. It will tell you who you are as a child of God.
Loving The Truth and embracing and living in The Light is
a brand new concept for some. It is not impossible, but you must begin somewhere.
God has created us perfectly and we
have listened to and been changed by other impressions than His image,
and other voices and other words have shaped us and
told us who we and suggested to us the
path that will make us happy and it didn’t.
The thoughts that we have been entertaining and accepting about
ourselves have not brought us into that which is fulfilling and satisfying
and it is time to find out why and to make some changes. It is time to draw the line and say ‘enough
is enough’ and to step onto a new platform and a clean canvas and begin
again. This will bring you into
the reality of your true identity in Christ.
This Way will bring a death to religious
spirits, performing, self-hatred, devasted relationships
and hopeless dreams.
are than His voice and It comes from the
death to ‘mask-wearing’. It makes
us real. First we get to join the
human race and face our condition, in fact, and then we are able to move
out into ‘The Truth About Me’ realm, which means I get to learn who I
am and also who I am not.
I get to face and understand, at last,
the simple reality about my true identity. It is The Truth THAT I KNOW that makes me free.
Accountability and "speaking the truth in love" are
key focuses. The teachings incorporate
THE CIRCLES TEACHING which is on video. We come together in these groups to dig into
issues and problems that we could not resolve any other way. It is only by learning and knowing and accepting
and believing who we are in Christ as a child and spirit-man son of God,
after the Firstborn of many brethren, that we can understand "Who
We REALLY Are", that we can truly be freed from the negative things
we don’t want to do.